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After a long period of rightsizing, rebuilding and, in the case of General Motors, repaying government loans, the auto industry is back on track. "Development and strategy are taking over from the firefighting of the past 18 to 24 months," says Jeff Schuster, of J.D. Power and Associates, an automotive data provider.

But the slump will influence the industry for years to come. After dipping to 10.6 million in 2009 and 11.5 million in 2010, vehicle sales should stabilize at about 13 million a year, instead of the nearly 17 million a year that marked much of the past decade. Carmakers have curtailed production to reduce excess inventory and curb steep discounting, so...

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It wasn't the postal worker, the cabbie or the diaper-bag-toting mom whose approving hollers surprised me. I heard all three (among a slew of others). I'd spent the better part of a week in a white Corvette 427 convertible — a sort of last hurrah before...

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